I loved to write when I was a child. I wrote, but I always thought it was something that you did as a child, then you put away childish things.
Rita DoveIf they don't read, if they don't love reading; if they don't find themselves compulsively reading, I don't think they're really a writer
Rita DoveRap is only one end of a whole spectrum of verbal play and virtuosity. Rap is geared for aural pleasure.
Rita DoveOne definition of eternity is that we are not alone on this planet, that there are those who've gone before and those who will come, and that there is a community of spirits.
Rita Dove